Canadian New Media Awards Last Night

May 29, 2007

A nice job by Adam Froman and his team last night with the Canadian New Media Awards. Details chez Neil.

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Michael Geist Sued in Green Party Libel Case?

May 29, 2007

Section 15 says that Michael has been sued for libel in the Green Party case, based on direct or indirect linking. Frankly, I think this is probably a serious strategic error on the plaintiff’s part. Extraordinary.

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Light Posting

May 29, 2007

We are now well into the week of mesh, so posting has been light lately and will be through the week. We’ve just announced the 15 minutes of fame winners, so head on over to the mesh blog and check out the details – we were delighted with the superb quality and high number of […]

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BarCamp TorontoTechWeek

May 23, 2007

BarCamp TorontoTechWeek is coming up. It tastes great and is also more filling. Markk has the details.

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But who will save the newspapers?

May 23, 2007

I just could not resist – the first graf from this piece from the NY Post caught my eye: “Google is trying to clean up its search results by cracking down on dubious Web sites that contain little content but lots of ads.”

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Celphone Roaming Fee Caps in Europe

May 23, 2007

According to the AP, they’re just around the corner. And are either Soviet-style central planning at its worst or a needed limit on massive unjustified profits, depending on whom you believe.

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“We don’t know enough about you”

May 23, 2007

An interesting quote from Google CEO Eric Schmidt in the context of Google’s plans to fuel its personalization technology by amassing wide and deep data on each of us. It was not that long ago that such plans scared the bejeezus out of us – Doubleclick was practically run out of town on a rail […]

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The Natural Unit of Music is the Experience

May 20, 2007

Nick Carr’s post on the first nine pages of David Weinberger’s new book, Everything is Miscellaneous, is perhaps an ode to the LP, but contains the start of an interesting debate about the packaging of music online – what is the natural unit of music, assuming there is one? Nick quotes David as commenting that […]

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On Youth and Being an Entrepreneur

May 20, 2007

The meme on entrepreneurs and age continues apace today, with an essay by Clay Shirky on the idea that young entrepreneurs have an advantage that older folks are lacking: A couple of weeks ago, Fred Wilson wrote, in The Mid Life Entrepreneur Crisis prime time entrepreneurship is 30s. And its possibly getting younger as web […]

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“A Fair(y) Use Tale”

May 20, 2007

Via Michael, an astoundingly creative video on copyright.

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Up is Down, Black is White

May 20, 2007

I’m not sure how to read the WaPo piece on the untold story of John Ashcroft’s resistance to the more fanatical elements of the Bush White House’s rollback on civil liberties. Was he a misunderstood hero? Or (paraphrasing Ralph Neas) did it just take an Alberto Gonzales to cast Ashcroft in the role of a […]

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Ze on Web Developers

May 19, 2007

Don’t know how I missed this – Ze Frank on web developers.

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